Unfortunately I don't have it either.This fanatic Turk from Turkish forum posted this graph and claimed based on that Armenians were mere 350k before AG! Absurd right? At 1st I just dismissed it as another bogus crap (It is still crap) but upon closer look I added all the numbers and got over 1 million Armenians!Now this jackass claimed 350k! So I just used his bogus material against him.I would like to know where this graph comes from myself.

Also, the Armenian count in the Empire in 1913 was of 1,914,620 according to Armenian archival records, in some regions in the West McCarthy corrected statistics gave higher figures than those, which shows that they are the most serious figures to date and did also suffer from undercounting. The most interesting with those figures are provided for the Eastern region (where the Ottoman statistics were the weaker), when replacing the corrected figures for the West (replaced by McCarthy), we find even a higher number, (tens of thousands more).

When I told you that the Armenian population was probably about 2 million, it was based on various figures, McCarthy claims about 1.7 or the entire Ottoman Empire, Toynbee, about 1.8 million for Anatolia. (which makes over 2 million for the Empire).

I'll post the 1913 figures for each regions and compare them with McCarrthy if I have time.

Also another interesting point, as I mentioned when the Ottoman statistic bureau became more centralised and improved the counting of Muslim population, is some region the Muslim population doubled as a result while the Armenian population didn't much modify. When replacing with 1913 statistic and compare, we realise a jump of population back the the expcted value which is observed with the Muslims (and even lower, which suggest they are not exaggerated figures).

Thanks for the Post. It is interesting that even McCarthy dares not go extreme here...1.7 seems pretty generous coming from a revisionist.Love you man

Here are the statistics of 1913 from the official Armenian records. The 1912 are those from McCarthy after he applied correction value to the Ottoman records. The % is the deviation in % from the Armenian records, as can be seen from the regions where the Ottoman had more administrative control both figures are similar and we even observe undercounting from the 1913 records.

The Merge represent choosing the highest between the two. The reason is that the 1913 figures when comparing we observe are not overcounting, the population differences for the less administrative control is the highest.

Note the capital, where the Ottoman had the most administrative control, the differences is of 0,94%.

Unfortunately I don't have it either.This fanatic Turk from Turkish forum posted this graph and claimed based on that Armenians were mere 350k before AG! Absurd right? At 1st I just dismissed it as another bogus crap (It is still crap) but upon closer look I added all the numbers and got over 1 million Armenians!Now this jackass claimed 350k! So I just used his bogus material against him.I would like to know where this graph comes from myself.

Armat, the map has some problems compared to the official Ottoman figures. I'll check that.

Here are the statistics of 1913 from the official Armenian records. The 1912 are those from McCarthy after he applied correction value to the Ottoman records. The % is the deviation in % from the Armenian records, as can be seen from the regions where the Ottoman had more administrative control both figures are similar and we even observe undercounting from the 1913 records.

The Merge represent choosing the highest between the two. The reason is that the 1913 figures when comparing we observe are not overcounting, the population differences for the less administrative control is the highest.

Note the capital, where the Ottoman had the most administrative control, the differences is of 0,94%.

Everything have no links. The 1912 figures are taken from Muslim and minorities and maps draw by McCarthy, the other are Patriarchate official figures, they are not those released by Marcel Léart or those used for propaganda purpouses, they were for internal consuption. They were official published by Raymond H. Kevorkian and Paul B. Paboudjian in Les Arméniens dans l'Empire Ottoman à la vielle du génocide, Ed. ARHIS, Paris, 1992

You can find it here p.82 from McCarthy chapter in a Turkish government publication. Don't buy what McCarthy is saying on p.81, he is making baseless assumptions to discredit the statistic but admit them to be superior to the other Patriarchate figures. Those were drown according to the parishes informations, birth, death certificates and the other records available.

I've checked this statistic, it is off mark in many cases, I just agree with one, 130,500 is obviously an underestimation of the Armenians of Van, not as much as the 1913 statistics though.

If we take the merge figures I have provided and add a 1,2% increase of population for the period of one year to find 1914 (note that it is not an exaggeration given that McCarthy figures represent 1912), we find 1,989,997. So there was approximativally 2 million Armenians to be moderate, but probably more.

what do you think about this argument:"it´s absolut nonsense to take in consideration the statistic of the armenian population just before 1915"

I thought in the beginning that it was too excessive, but afterwards, by taking into consideration "some" of the facts:- between 1894 and 1894 it is estimated that the number of armenians decrease with nearly 500 000 persons [300 000 were killed, 50 000 orphans, 100 000 refugees in the Transcaucasians]- massacres in Adana 1909 : 30 000 victims- the census doesn´t take into account the fact that the armenians wasn´t willing to "register" all their family members- ....

The Genocide didn´t begin in 1915, and before 1915 the armenian population went throught too many exactions (removals, massacres, change of religion...)

introduce myself?an armenian born in France, living in SwedenKharpetsi and Dikranagertsi

"it´s absolut nonsense to take in consideration the statistic of the armenian population just before 1915":I didnt mean something, it was a quote (between 2 "")this quote means that taking in consideration the statistic of the armenian population just before 1915 (1914 for example) without taking consideration of some major facts (developp in 3 points in my first topic) minimise the reality ...

welcome to hyeforum, which part of Kharpert is your ancestors from, do you know by any chance?

my wifes family is from Bazmashen, my own Fathers side is from Mush, Mothers from Khoy Salmast-Jugha-to Iranian Namakert.

while vacationing in Jermuk Armenia I noticed almost everyone is Vayq and surrounding areas can pin point there roots to Sasun and Mush to Khoy and Salmast.

right now I'm doing more research to that regard, many from Sasun, and Mush in general escaped or fled hamidian massacres and settled in Khoy-Salmast, while in his faymous book by Khachik Dashtents (Ranchparneri Kanche) it mentions how Andranik and maxluto (Smbat Boroyan) had gone to Salmast and recruited under there wing old fighters from Sasun.

its an amazing story. I start to believe many in Syuniq are direct descendents of Mush remnant population.